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remittances and growth has not been adequately studied. This paper studies one of the links between remittances and growth, in …-constructed dataset for remittances covering about 100 developing countries, we find that remittances boost growth in countries with less …Despite the increasing importance of remittances in total international capital flows, the relationship between …
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migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants’ education level. The determinants … of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants’ education level, and source countries’ income …, financial sector development and expected growth rate. The estimation takes potential endogeneity into account, an issue not …
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find that remittances exert a weakly positive impact on long-term macroeconomic growth. The paper also considers the …There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants’ remittances to sustainable … economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded remittances to developing countries has increased …
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This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from … remittance recipient and non-recipient households. The results of our cross-section and panel analyses indicate that remittances … increase schooling and reduce child labour. Although international remittances are found to have a stronger beneficial impact …
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In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving … country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later … attachment to the household would be more inclined to remit money home. Therefore, remittances can be seen as a proxy for the …
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voters. The developing region experiences significant growth in all specifications but benefit more under international … capital mobility. Restricting political participation of migrant workers in the developed region produces inferior growth …
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We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...
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This paper aims to provide the first evidence concerning the relationship between time and risk preferences and illegal migration in an African context. Based upon our theoretical model and using a unique data set on potential migrants collected in urban Senegal, we evaluate a measure of time...
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policymakers' beliefs about the impact of capital account liberalization on growth, under the 'Mundell's trilemma constraint. The …
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